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Today was to be the day hubby was going to dig up the sweet potatoes and then we would say a final prayer to our dead 2013 garden, but right now it is pouring down, thunder, etc. so guess the garden will stay as is for a few more days.
Digging our sweet potatoes up today! Finally, rain stopped and we are having periods of sun and clouds. Sweet potato casserole on the menu for tomorrow.
We finally picked our green tomatoes and dug up the still-beautiful plants. Just not warm enough for all to ripen properly. Now I have 6 grocery bags of green-into-red tomatoes and need to do something with them. I can't beleive that we had such an awesome crop this year!! It made me sad to let husband destroy the plants!
We had a lot of company this past week. I made a HUGE pot of butternut squash soup! It was pretty darn good, too. And fresh salsa with the ripest of the tomatoes.
It turned out the rain stopped here as well, so hubby did dig them up. We only got a handful and like the rest of our garden this year, they are small, but we will have a few meals out of them. Next year will be a better year, I am sure.
Actually I am seeing a few very tiny jalapenos on my potted pepper plants, so I guess we will get a few more. Also, I have lots of basil, so think I am going to experiment with it. I am going to move it to the screened porch for a month of so, then when we get close to a freezing night I am going to move it into our guest room where there is a lot of light. I am going to see if I can keep it alive all winter.
Butterbush squash, eggplant, rosemary and marjoram in a casserole. I was disappointed with the earlier butterbush I had tasted, but the couple of weeks of drought must have made a difference. The one I had today is really sweet. I made salmon with rosemary and garlic from the garden. I added old bay and some old rose I had in the fridge. Yummy!
Sorrel greens (can't find these in stores, too gentle), it has sour taste, lots of vitamin C, it requires zero care, zero weeding, spaying or anything else, it's perennial, it's producing greens since April and most importantly it doesn't appeal to most pests here in Ohio, so it's nice green undamaged by pests leaves without any chemicals on them.
Do you mean french sorrel?! I tasted these for the first time at our MG Demo garden. They're yummy! I got a ragged looking one at the end of season clearance at a local nursery. You are so right. I didn't really water it during the drought. I actually forgot the thing. It survived and it now looks great.
I actually picked 6 more jalapenos yesterday, even though we had our first frost the night before. Now the planters (pots) go back in the shed for another year. I brought all my house/screened in porch) plants in a few days ago. Now I have to replant a few that are too big for their containers and find places in the house to keep them for the winter. I have a basil in the guest bedroom.
We haven't had a frost yet. It must be this "new" climate because it's supposed to be Oct. 15th for frost.
Anyway, we ate the last tomato except for a few green ones ripening on the windowsill.
I still have chard out there and beets.
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Finally, rain stopped and we are having periods of sun and clouds. Sweet potato casserole on the menu for tomorrow. 
